Lead AI Data & Analytics Engineer

Goodgame Studios

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In this role, you will design a comprehensive gameplay analytics system, create automated dashboards, evaluate AI tools, and ensure data quality for data-driven gaming decisions.

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Your role in the team

  • Design and operate the end-to-end gameplay analytics ecosystem.
  • Define tracking, storage, processing, and reporting architecture.
  • Own data correctness and make judgment calls when quality checks flag anomalies.
  • Build the semantic layer that translates raw gameplay data into validated gameplay and business concepts.
  • Develop AI-driven automated reporting, dashboards, and insight-generation workflows.
  • Evaluate and implement AI tools, agents, and workflows that improve analytics speed, reliability, and depth.
  • Review AI-generated code and analytics on critical paths before they reach production.
  • Identify opportunities, risks, anomalies, and trends across gameplay and player behavior.
  • Support product, balancing, design, and leadership teams with data-driven recommendations.
  • Translate complex datasets into clear, actionable insights.
  • Help define how the wider engineering organization adopts agentic practices.
  • Establish standards for tooling, review processes, quality gates, and what “done” means when agents generate most of the implementation.

Our expectations of you

Qualifications

  • You have built an analytics or data platform from scratch at least once: choosing the stack, setting up the warehouse and pipelines, and taking it into production. Running or extending an existing setup alone is not enough.
  • AI-first is how you already work today, not something you plan to learn. Deep comfort with LLMs, agents, and AI-assisted engineering workflows in production environments.
  • The ability to discuss concretely how you: structure prompts and context, manage autonomous and multi-agent workflows, including when to intervene, use MCP servers, custom tools, skills, or subagents, review AI-generated code and queries without becoming a bottleneck.
  • Strong Python and SQL skills. You read and take ownership of code you didn’t write, and independently verify outputs rather than blindly trusting generated results.
  • Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms and storage.
  • Strong analytical decomposition skills and the ability to translate ambiguous business questions into precise analytical problems.
  • Strong instinct for data quality, system reliability, and independent verification. You don't simply accept whatever the agent produces.
  • Comfortable operating independently, driving technical initiatives from concept to production, and owning outcomes rather than tasks. You bring the drive to build something new at high speed, and you push it forward without waiting to be asked.
  • Excellent English communication skills.
  • Passion for gaming.

Experience

  • Several years of experience building analytics or data-driven systems in production environments, ideally in gaming or mobile.
  • Analytics experience with free-to-play mobile games, ideally including a launch (from soft launch to global release). You know what questions the data needs to answer in the weeks around launch and UA scaling.
  • Hands-on experience using agentic workflows and AI coding tools in real-world projects. You can demonstrate agentic analytics work that you’ve shipped and used to inform real decisions.
  • Strong experience working with behavioral, transactional, or event-based datasets and deriving actionable insights from complex data.
  • Experience designing scalable data architectures, pipelines, data models, dashboards, analytical frameworks, or automated insight-generation systems.

What we offer

  • Our studio is based in Hamburg, Germany, and we welcome applications from international candidates. English is our working language.

Benefits

Health, fitness & fun

Topics you will work on

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About your employer

At Goodgame Studios, we're leaders in developing free-to-play games. We offer mobile and browser games to over 300 million players worldwide, who can enjoy our games directly from their PCs or through their smartphones or tablets. Our games are entertaining and varied, and best of all, they're free! So come and join the fun today. You won't be disappointed.

Founding year
2009
Language
English
Company type
Established Company
Work model
Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
Industry
Internet, IT, Telecommunication
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Lead AI Data & Analytics Engineer

Goodgame Studios